George Templeton Strong

George Templeton Strong (26 January 1820-21 July 1875) was an American lawyer and diarist during the American Civil War.

Biography
George Templeton Strong was born in New York City, New York in 1820, and he graduated from Columbia College in 1838 before joining his father's law firm. In 1853, he became a trustee of Columbia College, and he helped to found the United States Sanitary Commission. During the American Civil War, Strong - a conservative lawyer who distrusted Abraham Lincoln - began to keep track of events in his diary. He funded a Union Army regiment, but he paid $300 for another man to take his place in the draft. He died in 1875, and his diary was rediscovered in the 1930s, carefully describing the war's events.